Evening Star Newspaper, October 22, 1936, Page 12

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTO D. C THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1936, . _ A—12 : 2 h o E THIS AND THAT AR RS I VIR < B BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. . THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. October 22, 1936 THEODORE W. NOYES.. .Editor bt e e The Evening Star Newspaper Company. Business Ofmce: 11th 8t and Pennsylvi Ave. . New York Office. 110 East 4nd 8t Chicago Office: Lake Michigan Bullding, European Office: 14 Regent St.. London. Eng! Rate by Carrier Within the City. Regular Edition. e Evening Star e Evening and_ Suh whe! -45¢ per month -65¢ per month Star__ --5¢ per copy Night Final Edition. wlh! Final and Sunday Star....70c per month ight Fonal Star ______.______b5c per month Colleciion made at the end of each month. Orders may be sent by mail or telephone Na- tional 5000. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryiand and Virgiaia afly and Sunday.._1 yr. $10.00; glllv only___. 1 yr. $6.00; unday only.. 1 a1, .003 Al Other States and Ca; fly and Sunday..] yr.. $12.00; 1 mo. $1.00 Jaily oniy 1 yr. $8.00; 1 me 75¢ Eu‘n ay only.. . ;&.00; i m 80¢ Member of the Assoclated Press. ‘The Assoclated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches eredited to it or not etherwise credited in this Daper and slso the local news published herein. Il rights of publication of special atches erein are also reserved. e Mr. Davis onthe New Deal. Because of the speaker’s own political background, his reputation as one of the leaders of the American bar and the im- personal and temperate tone of his re- marks, the address of John W. Davis on Tuesday night will rank as one of the important utterances of the campaign. That the speech represented a devas- tating attack on New Deal policies may be attributed in part to Mr. Davis’ polished skill in forensic discourse. He is a pleasant speaker who indulges in little of the emotional breast-beating with which the American radio public has become so satiated in the course of the present campaign. He addressed himself to issues and centered his fire on what many consider the most inde- fensible portions of the New Deal record. As a Democrat Mr. Davis expresses concern for the new raiment with which the party of his past allegiance has adorned itself and, if parties as well as people are to be judged by the company they keep, is more than ever anxious over an alliance with the Farmer- Laborites of Minnesota, who have forth- rightly expressed an objective which may be attributed to the New Dealers only by deduction: “The complete reorgan- ization of our social structure into a co-operative commonwealth.” Having scanned the record since Chicago in 1932, Mr. Davis i{s unable to find anything in common between himself and the Demo- cratic party of today or between the Democratic traditions of the past and the New Deal tendencies of today. He may have accepted the current theory that the Democratic party as it was known in 1932 no longer exists and that four years hence the majority of the in- compatible elements now united under the Democratic standards will be found under the banners of an entirely new party parading under the name of Farmer-Labor or something else. But while he speaks as a Democrat, the spirit that moved Mr. Davis to place his views on record was deeper than mere concern over the destinies of a party. He spoke as an American citizen, alarmed not so much that fires have been kindled in the past under conditions that may or may not have been justified by the circumstances, but sincerely apprehen- sive as to how those fires, threatening what he conceives as the inner struc- ture of his country, are going to be extinguished before great damage has been done, He lists, in the nature of counts in an indictment, eleven “things we have lived to see” under the present administration and concludes that they cannot be reconciled with the Democratic platform of 1932, with the Democratic platform of any year or “with any pre- vious conception of the American system of government.” To his former comrades Mr, Davis charges tacit repudiation of the spirit and the letter of the Constitution, a use of the taxing power to take from one and give to another, indoctrination through cash of the theory that the government must support the citizen in place of the tradi- tional concept of the citizen's support of government, the spendthrifty habits of living on borrowed money, the attempt to centralize in Washington dominion over “the economic, industrial and social life of the continent” and fanning, “by direct appeal and subtle suggestion, the flames of class feeling, class hatred and class cupidity.” : Neither Socialistic according to the theory of Socialism, Communistic accord- ing to the theory of Communism, Fascist according to the theory of Fascism, the New Deal in Mr. Davis’ opinion is hard to classify. But he satisfies himself it s neither Democratic nor American and that in the heat of “doing something” it has started fires which are not easily to be extinguished. —————————— If political publicity folk continue to discover more drama they are likely to restore to popular attention the favorite of sob sisters, the lady with blond hair and blue eyes. Mr. Ekins’ Feat. H. R. Ekins, New York newspaper man, has circled the globe in eighteen days, fourteen hours and fAfty-six minutes. He 1s the first of three reporters to make the trip using none but regular com- mercial modes of transportation. In outline, his itinerary was: New York to Lakehurst by automobile; Lakehurst to PFrankfort by Graf Hindenburg; Frank- fort to Batavia by K. L. M.-Royal Dutch Alr Lines; Batavia to Manila by K. B. 1. L. M.-Royal Netherlands Indian Air- ways; Manila to Alameda by Pan-Amer- jcan Alrways; Alameds to Burbank by United Airlines; Burbank to Newark by T, W. A, and Newark to New York by automobile, The actual flying time was eight days, ten hours twenty-six minutes and three seconds; the distance traveled, 25,654 miles, and the total cost approxi- mately five thousana dollars. 3 Obviously, Mr. Ekins’ achievement was that of “a mere passenger.” He set out to show what could be done in the way of rapid transit over established routes and established facilities, It foilows that ordinary people—not only trail-blazing Jjournalists—can do the same thing. The world, in effect, is smaller than it for- merly was; the continents are cor- related in a network which bring towns on opposite sides of the earth into the relation of neighbors. To statesmen charged with the creation and preserva- tion of peace that is a significant fact— & “condition” to be reckoned with in the future, if not in the immediate present. The day will dawn; it seems, when a plane may circumnavigate the planet without stopping, perhaps dropping bombs en route. But, meanwhile, a considerable public will be interested to see improvement in less hasty methods of travel. Hectic speed is an objective of relatively few persons. Mr. Ekins’ experience is remi- niscent of that of a certain Washington family not long ago. Hurrying from Berlin to Paris, they stopped for break- fast in Cologne. Over their heads as they sat in the station restaurant rose the towers of one of the grandest of cathedrals. The youngest member of the party summarized the sentiment of the whole group when she said: “I want to come back here and see this when I don’t have to rush.” To know the beauty and the wonder of the world one needs more leisure than a record-breaking piece of human baggage in an airship is afforded. oo Germany’s New Dictator. Recently Berlin was agitated by reports that Hitler is divesting himself of certain autocratic powers and conferring them upon Colonel-General Hermann Goering, premier of Prussia, Reich air minister and der Feuhrer’s closest and most power- ful lieutenant. Events have just borne out that prognostication. Goering has been appointed to execute the four-year plan of economic self-containment promulgated at Nuremberg last month. Hitler remains in supreme command, but clothes the No. 2 Nazi with omnipotent powers, making Goering the autocrat of German trade, with indisputable author- ity to control and regulate it. Only der Fuehrer himself can check or overrule him. The sweeping powers thus bestowed mean that Germany now has two dicta- tors—Hitler and Vice Dictator Goering. The basic purpose is to mobilize and administer the Reich's economic re- sources so as to render it as far as humanly possible independent of foreign raw materials and foodstuffs. To that end Goering is authorized to compel industry to resort to any recourse he decrees, at whatever cost to itself. Trade and commerce are apparently to be sub- jected to the rugged regimentation im- posed in World War time, when the Germans, hemmed in by the British blockade, achieved miracles in the indus- trial realm by resort to the famed Ersatz (substitute) system for a variety of essential rawstuffs .which could no longer be imported. It enabled the German armies and people to sustain themselves for four years against pro- digious odds. Hitler and his spokesmen often argue that Germany is engaged in a campaign for economic self-preservation akin to the stern demands imposed by war con- ditions. As it is Goering’s job to win the new%ampaign, he will subordinate all and sundry ruthlessly to the attain- ment of that goal. Just how he proposes to handle his Herculean problem, espe- cially the thorny issues of currency, exports and foreign credits, remains to be disclosed. But his record for fierce determination insures that he will tackle it in forthright fashion, Even the Ger- man press is to be harnessed to the Goering chariot, along with the right to overrule any government department that stands in its way. Dr. Schacht, hitherto all powerful as Reichsbank president and economics minister, goes into eclipse with the rest of the national fiscal organization of which Goering is now the unchallengeable master. Germans insist their raw material plight can never be fully relieved with- out recovery of colonies, or, as Hitler has hinted, without some of Soviet Russla’s rich domain. It may be taken for granted that the iron-handed Goer- ing, while bossing the industrial show, will not leave out of account the Reich’s territorial hunger or cease to maneuver at home and abroad for its appeasement. Possibly in the course of his operations he will seize useful occasions to remind all concerned that, besides being trade dictator, he is also chief of the mightiest air force in Europe. —————— It may be assumed that Mr. Vanden- berg would place a phonograph record of his remarks at the disposal of any Democratic orators who might desire to talk back to it. Senator Vandenberg has occasioned some surprise by telling things off the phonograph record. Dr. Allan Davis. Dr. Allan Davis is retiring from the service of education in the District of Columbia, and the occasion provides opportunity for the observation that a life may be a monument. ‘Literally hun- dreds of thousands of people, it confi- dently is suggested, are helped by such a career as the principal of Theodore Roosevelt High School has had. Not merely the pupils who have studied under him, but also the public at large in which they are merged have been advantaged by his devotion to his pro- fession. He has taught the whole city, influenced the destiny of the entire community. In terms of time, Dr. Davis has given half a century of effort to the business of civilization. That means that he has been an spostle of practical culture through approximately labors is beyond further mathematical measurement. But it is incontrovertible that spiritual progress is involved in such a record. Logically, then, a contribution to the growth of the Nation's soul is indi- cated. H. G. Wells had a similar thought in mind when he declared that the present age is witnessing 2 race between education and disaster. Humanity either will regenerate or degenerate. The de- cision must be reached in the class room. Dr. Davis, however, has not worried about the future. Rather, it has been the immediate present that consistently has been his concern. He has tried to assist his boys and girls to make the most of their talents. His doctrine of social salvation has been the systematic im- provement of individuals. And at the moment when he puts aside his formal duties his example is worthy of citation to those persons who vainly imagine that there is some better way to achieve a new Eden in a new Earth. ————————— A certain amount of persiflage is fre- quently expected of a Vice President as cares of state claim the earnest attention of the Chief Executive. It would be dis- concerting, however, if in the lack of other official occupation a Vice President should gravitate into a position slightly resembling that of court jester in ancient monarchies. ——————— The telegraph and the phonograph have been held up to ethical question and now Secretary Ickes asserts that in seeking funds Kansas dialed the wrong number on the telephone. Adjust- ment to & mechanistic era has its hardships. ————— Post cards are sent out by Senator Barkley of Kentucky addressed to Box Holder. This may be good politics, but not as flattering to the proletariat as the old practice of shaking each citizen by the hand and asking about the health of the family. —————— 1t is well known that Herbert Hoover prides himself on being a Quaker. It is equally well known that when a Demo- cratic campaigner mentions “my friends” he does not mean Herbert. —————— There will be time for a few more “straw votes” before the election, but the effort of conducting them is great, and a straw vote has never convinced a party of impending defeat. —————— Effort is made to attach a certain amount of blame to the word politics. And yet every patriot has been obliged at some point in his career to admit being a politician. —————— There is at any rate enough freedom of speech in America to enable persons supposed to be in partisan accord to contradict one another ad lib. ———. Shooting Stars. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. A Recollection. When the days keep getting shorter and the work piles up so high Before the chap who faces it with dim and weary eye Youll sometimes see him ponder, with a face that’s all aglow, On that great two weeks’ vacation that he had not long ago. He sees himself in fancy as amid the merry throng He played on the beach where ocean waves were dashing strong. He sees himself with jaunty stride parad- ing down the walk In clothes which, if a trifie loud, were quite the latest talk. Now his office coat is shiny and his col- lar’s wilted quite, And his tousled hair is frying ‘neath the fierce electric light. And yet from time to time he braces up with style complete As that little old two weeks looms up & memory fond and sweet., Prudence. “Have you studied the question thor- oughly?” “What question?” asked Senator Sorg- hum. “The one on which you are about to make & speech.” “No. I carefully avoided studious con- sideration of the matter. In case my remarks do not prove agreeable to my constituents, I want them to sound as if I spoke impulsively.” Varying Effects. “The same thing will make entirely different impressions on different read- ers,” remarked the man who writes. “Quite s0,” replied the lawyer. “Let- ters which bring tears to a girl's eyes frequently make a jury laugh.” A Base Ball Wail. Injustice reigns from coast to coast. Her sway we all regret it. Towns that deserve a pennant most 8o very seldom get it. The Limited View. “Can't you see,” said the conservation- ist, “that the creek which runs through your place is getting smaller every year?” “Yes,” replied Farmer Corntossel, “but it never was big enough to get any rivers an’ harbors ‘propriations, nohow.” Newly Discovered Talents. *“Of course, I shrieked when I thought there was a burglar in the house,” said young Mrs. Torkins. “What did your husband do?” “Charley looked at me with deep re- proach and asked why I couldn't holler that way once in & while when the home team needed a boost.” What Always Happens. No matter what'you strive to do To make mankind your debtor, Somebody shows when you'get through It might be done much better. “De mule has. ‘de hest of de human kicker,” said Uncle Eben, “foh de reason . dat he's willin’ to stop it sometimes §0 to work.” 2 THE POLITICAL MILL BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. PITTSBURGH, October 22.—As the 1936 presidential campaign draws to a close, many parallels are found with the campaign of 1896. William Jennings Bryan, the new dealer of that day, was a great campaigner, a great orator, an easy money man. He had the backing of the Populist party as well as the backing of the Democratic organization. He made his appeal to the farmer and to the laborer and attacked big business. He was opposed by the quiet-spoken William B. McKinley of Ohio. Today, Franklin D. Roosevelt, another great campaigner and speaker par ex- cellence, is the Democratic candidate. He has the backing of the Farmer- Labor party in Minnesota, the Progres- sive party in Wisconsin, which have many of the characteristics of the people’s party—the Populists—of 1896. In addition he has the backing of other more radical groups among the elec- torate, He is seeking particularly the support of labor and of the farmer. His gold and silver policies more nearly approach those of Bryan than any other presidential candidate of either of the And he is opposed by spoken man, Gov. Alf M. Landon of Kansas. * ok ok % In the campaign of 1896 Bryan drew enormous crowds. Roosevelt is doing the same thing. Bryan had opposed to him the old Cleveland Democrats, the so- called gold Democrats, who put & sepa- rate Democratic candidate in the fleld, Palmer by name. Roosevelt has against him old line Democrats who supported John W. Davis and Al Smith when they were presidential candidates in 1924 and 1928. Both Smith and Davis are on the stump against Roosevelt. Several anti- Roosevelt Democratic organizations are in the field. And as in 1896, business men generally were fighting the election of Bryan, so today they are fighting the re-election of Roosevelt, The campaign of 1896 was fought out on the gold issue, with the protective tariff as McKinley’s real love. In those Gays the business men of the country saw control slipping away from them. Today the business men see that control has already gone from them and they are trying to regain it in some measure. They are backing Landon on the ground that Roosevelt is out to regiment business and place it under Government control, if not in Government ownership and operation, In 1896 the countrv was recovering from the depression of 1893, McKinley and his backers were able to persuade the workers that they would be better off under Republican rule and a strong pro- tective tariff, insuring them the “full dinner pail” Today Landon and his backers are telling the workers that they will improve their condition if the Re- publican party is put back into the saddle and business is given a free rein, making for more and better paying jobs. And today the country is recovering from the depression of 1929 and the years following. * ok % There is still an enormous number of workers out of employment, with esti- mates putting the number at around 10,000,000. The Roosevelt administra- tion has put those out of work on the dole, either direct relief or work-relief rolls. With the return of more normal conditions, thousands of men and women have gone back to work in pri- vate industry. In some of the indus- tries things are actually booming. The steel workers have jobs back and they are making good money. There is more employment in the gold and silver mines and in the coal mines and in the auto- mobile industry. The Republicans are trying to per- suade the workers that there is no future in relief payments from the Government. They are attacking the Roosevelt social security act, which will take from the workers’ pay envelopes 1 per cent of their pay beginning next January, and will bring the contribution later up to 3 per cent. They paint the social security act as an enormity rather than a blessing, pointing out that workers will pay into the Federal Treasury, in what amounts to pay roll tax, a much greater amount during their working years than they will ever receive from the Government in the way of pensions after they are 65 years of age, except in the case of those workers who already are approaching that age. If the payments by the work- ers had begun last July 1, instead of waiting until next January, the New Dealers might find themselves today in much worse case than they are. The workers have not yet felt the pinch of that tax. L The attack by the Republicans on the pay roll tax for the social security act is making itself felt among the workers. The workers do not relish the idea of a compulsory tax on their wages. And when it is explained to them that the employers must pay first a 1 per cent tax and later a 3 per cent tax for the eld- age pensions, and on top of that a 3 per cent tax for unemployment insur- ance, the whole tax rises to 9 per cent on the pay rolls. The question arises whether the employers and the employes of a private business can afford any such tax, on top of the State and Federal taxes already exacted, and continue to do business without a very great increase in prices of products which the people must buy. * ok ok X In 1896 the big States of the East, plus the populous States of the Middle West, defeated Bryan. It is upon the East and the Middle West that Landon and the Republicans are relying today to defeat the Roosevelt New Deal administration. Forty years ago McKinley carried Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Minne- s il Small gardens, in the main, are divided into two classes, owing to the very nature of things, and fortunate is the owner who keeps them in mind: 1. The sunny garden. 2. The shady garden. ‘What you can grow in one you cannot grow very well in the other. This applies particularly to plants which demand full sunshine. They will live, but never very happily, in the shady yard. . 1t also applies to those plants which like half-shade in their normal habitat. While both types of plants may be forced to endure life out of their usual situations, it is seldom that they result in growth or flowers satisfactory to the amateur gardener. * ko K Yet nothing is more common than to see people trying to grow the plants suited to the sunny yard in a garden surrounded by great trees. Not only do the latter send their roots out far into the flower borders and lawn, taking nutriment away from annuals and perennials alike, and also the grass, but their leaves create a condition of shade against which even rampant growers, such as the zinnia, must struggle in vain. Petunias, another “sure-fire” annual, beloved of most amateurs, will seldom respond nicely in such a situation. ‘There is a great difference between such plants, grown as they should be grown, and the same species displayed in the half-sick, dispirited condition so often seen in the shady yard. * Ok K X The wise amateur in time suits his plants to his conditions. It may take him several years, how- ever, to come to this. He will try, try again, according to the best copy book traditions. He will be loath, if he has a shady place, to give up his old loves. Hence he will plant them time after time in the hope that they will live up to their old standards, but in the main he will find he cannot change Nature. Sun-loving flowers require sun to do their best. Not only will their rate of growth be slowed up in most cases, but the beauty of their blossoms will be far less. They will be subjected to more attacks by insects and blights. They will seldom be a satisfaction to the planter. * % % ¥ The gladiolus, favorite of many, never gives over its liking for sunshine. There are few plants which demand sun as persistently, which is no wonder, since the original “flag lily,” or “sword lily,” from which all the modern varieties have sprung, came from Africa. Its bulbs (technically and properly called corms) seldom had any infection, until during recent years they were attacked by the thrips. It may be that this invasion resulted only when many gardeners insisted in trying to grow these glorious things in half-shade. The gladiolus may be blossomed in the shady yard, but the plant is not half as high, nor the flowers half as large. Good color, too, mostly is lacking in the wrong situation. This holds good of practically all sorts of sun-loving plants. They will grow, and most often blossom, but the total result will be only a mockery of the real thing grown as it should be grown. STARS, MEN Those who have shady or semi-shady gardens might as well make up their minds to forgo the standard popular things which do well in the sunny yard. There is an entire new list of material which will grow nicely in the shade. Much of it is unknown to the average amateur gardener. It includes most of the so-called wild flowers, the ferns and a battery of borderline plants which will tolerate either complete shade or part shade. \ Most of the hardy shrubs will come through in inimical positions; that fis, they will do well enough to justify their use and retention. ‘Thus the average homeowner who loves lilacs need not give them up entirely because he has great trees around his home. While lilacs do better in sunshine, without questions, although even this precious commodity will not insure their blossoming, in most situations they do well enough to bear planting. No one seems to have solved the reason for shy blooming of lilacs. There are a multitude of theories, all of which seem wrong on occasion. Still there is a wealth of sentimental loveliness about this old shrub, and even those who despair of making them bloom regularly and who must plant them in a semi-shady yard will do well to keep on trying. * % x x Kinds of soll and drainage are two factors which must be kept in mind at all times. Rosebushes like a clay soil, stance, and plenty of sunshine. What is the use of trying to force them to grow in another type soil, even though good, and under trees? Yet no sight s more common. Usually wrong soil and conditions are made worse by failure to use the correct insecticides and fungicides and plenty of plant food. Under such conditions, or, rather, lack of the right ones, few roses will do well. The attempt to grow them then becomes no pleasure at all. Growing good roses is always real work, even under the best conditions, but when the set-up is wrong in major essentials there is only dis- appointment to he had from the attempt. Even an expert could not grow them properly under the wrong conditions. What chance, then, has the amateur when soil and situation are not right? * "k ©Old garden friends are not to be given up lightly, of course. If one has trees, and many of them, it is just as well to make a determined effort to grow favorite annuals under them. There may be exceptions. But when the experience of several years proves beyond doubt that they do not do well, in comparison with the old standards, it may be just as well to give them up. The best garden is the healthy one, in which plants suited to the conditions found are growing as they ought to grow. Shy little forest wild flowers shrivel in the full light of the sun. Zinnias become straggly and covered with mildew beneath great trees. Stubbornly to keep on trying to grow the wrong things in the wrong places, rather than the right things in the right places, means gardening at its mediumly worst, and unhappiness both for plants and their keepers, AND ATOMS for in- Notebook of Science Progress in Field, Laboratory and Study. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. A new sort of life-and-death battle in the microscopic world between tiny shelled animals and flesh-devouring fungi has been found by Dr. Charles Dreschler, fungus specialist of the Bureau of Plant Industry. The discovery, reported by Dreschler in the October journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences, includes that of a hitherto unknown variety of fungus. The pnenomenon might be likened to that of a tree catching and eating big turtles. When a culture of diseased plant roots is made, the Agriculture Department scientist explains, there soon appear great numbers of microscopic plants and animals, including bacteria, fungi, amoe- bae, nematodes and other life forms. Immediately starts the struggle for sur- vival, the animals trying to eat the plants and vice versa. Among the living things which appear are great numbers of creatures known as rhizopods. Prac- tically unknown except to specialists, these microscopic creatures have played an important part in the economy of life. They are probably the best equipped of all the new arrivals to survive, since their soft bodies are covered with relatively eavy shells. i B:l’fie years ago Dr. Dreschler first re- ported the existence of predacious, meat- eating fungi—parasitic forms of plant life which literally lassoed such un- animals as amoebae and thread-like mematodes and proceeded to devour them at leisure by the process of infiltrating their bodies. It would seem offhand as if the armored creatures would be thoroughly protected from these ferocious plants vhichuipp‘elrl;n\;ndar the microscope as thread-like forms. But the rhizopod has a weak spot in its defenses. It must get its mouth out- side its shell in order to eat. Apparently the most inviting forage at hand is the innocent-appearing fungus. The animal proceeds to suck at it with movements which Dr. Dreschler describes as similar vainly to get away. b lzu(zutth . | i Y‘g 1 ha gé | §§§E : i H e i and most persistent weed criminal, ac- cording to experiments just reported by L. W. Kephart, weed specialist of the Bureau of Plant Industry. ‘West of the Mississippi it is known as the blind-weed, and it is the one plant that isn't injured by drought. A field in Southwestern Minnesota badly in- fested with blind-weed was clean culti- vated regularly during the past Summer, Kephart reports. "Just as regularly the blind-weed came up again, although all other vegetation was dead or dormant. ‘The morning glory, Kephart found, keeps growing despite cultivation and drought because of its deep-root system, unusually extensive in proportion to the plant itself. The roots, some of them 25 to 30 feet long, serve as a storehouse of food for the plant and give it unusual vitality. It can eventually be Kkilled, Department of Agricultue experiments show, by cutting off the top at least once a week for at least two years. It is much more enaclous of life, however, during & severe drought when other vegetation is killed. When deprived of water it “sulks” and grows slowly, so that there is a very slight drain on its reserve energy. Only occasional cutting of the blind- ‘weed really helps it to spread, the experi- ment shows, since when a weed is cut the roots send up several plants where one grew before. Leaves allowed to develop more than two or three inches replenish the storehouse in the roots. Absolutely clean cultivation is necessary if the blind- weed is to be starved to death, the only method of getting rid of it. The Futility of Strikes. From the Charlotte Observer. Labor troubles are breaking out over the two Carolinas with a frequency and developing an intensity of friction that ‘They have to do largely with employes in cotton and hosiery mills, and are, therefore, centric to the most command- ing and important of the industries of these two States. Except for sporadic instances of such disaffection, the Carolinas and the South in general have been largely relieved in times past of the desperation and de- struction which such difficulties produce. It is mainly for that reason that the cotton manufacturing industry has de- veloped in this area to an extent that has virtually brought about its annihila- tion in the New England States. What a tragic mistake it would be should either operators or operatives in both, become deluded destruction that attacked the ustry in the East and put it to Strikes are profitable to neither—nor the public, which, also, has a large social and economic stake in this equa- tion. And they usually wind up with both sides having agreed to the policy of give and take, leaving nothing especially de- cisive in the way of a victory for either, ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. A reader can get the answer to any question of fact by writing The Evening Star Information Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, Director, Washington, D. C. Please inclose stamp for reply. Q. What is the highest price ever paid for a polo pony?—M. E. C. A. The record price was $22,000, paid for Jupiter severai years ago by John Sanford. Q. Is Shirley Temple above the average in intellect?>—R. M. A. The young actress has been rated as mentally two or three years in advance of the average 7-year-old child by a psychologist at the University of South- ern California and by Dr. Oscar Olsen, dean of the University of Switzerland. She reads and writes well, has a vocabu=~ lary of 2400 words, and in addition to her regular third-grade studies is taking drawing and French. Q. \:,here was the camellia first grown? —T. W. A. The camellia is a native of China, India and Japan. It was introduced in Europe during the seventeenth century by a Jesuit, George Joseph Kamel, from whose name the Latinized word camellia is derived. Q. What is the largest shellfish?—C. K. A. The giant clam of the coral islands in the Pacific is the largest shellfish in the world. The shells often weigh 400 pounds or more. Q. Were playing cards once hand- painted?—E. W, A. The early packs of cards were painted by hand and very expensive. The accounts of the French King, Charles VI, for the year 1392 show the payment to a painter of a sum equivalent to $500 for three packs of cards in gold and various colors ornamented with various designs. Between 1420 and 1430 engraving was applied to the manue facture of cards. Q. Please give a biography of Izaak Walton—H. R. A. The writer was born at Stafford, England, in 1593. He was a linen draper in London, but at the age of 50 retired to devote himself to literary pursuits and angling. His most famous work, “The Compleat Angler,” is still popular. He died in 1683. Q. Who are the Chins?—E. B. A. They are a Mongol people living in Burma and along the Burmo-Chinese frontier. Said to have come from Tibet, they are great hunters and treacherous warriors. Q. What is the term of office of & cardinal?—J. G. A. Cardinals are appointed by the Pope and hold office for life. Q. What city is known as the City of Hills>-T. W. A. Lynchburg, Va,, is so called. Q. Has the Columbus Memorial Lighte house been completed?—K. W. A. Plans for this beacon at Ciudad Trujilla have been under way for some time and the design has been accepted. A 2500-acre tract of land has been set aside for the tower. Q. How many graduates of Princeton University are there?—H. M. L. A. There are 17.967 living alumni of Princeton University. Q. Was Earl Browder's father a fore eigner?—F. A. A. The father of the Communist nomi= nee for President was William Browder, a school teacher, who traced his ancestry back to seventeenth-century Virginia pioneers. Q. How much prize money did the novel “Steps Going Down” win?—L. P. T. A. John T. Mclntyre, the author, re- ceived $4.000 for winning the American contest, and if his novel wins the All- Nations Prize Novel Competition. 10 countries participating, he will receive an additional $15,000. Q. What city has the lowest death rate from tuberculosis?—R. M. A. The lowest tuberculosis death rate is held by Oklahoma City, Okla. the figures being 29 per 100,000 population. Q. How many people visited national parks and monuments this year?—Y. H. A. During the travel year ending Sepe tember, 1936, a total of 9,929,432 persons visited the 134 national parks and monu= ments. Q. How many bicycles are now in use in this country? How many bicycle riders were killed by collision with automobiles last year?—T. R. A. It is estimated that there are almost 10,000,000 on the streets and roads. In 1935 it is estimated that 450 bicyclists were killed, and of these 350 were killed in automobile-bicycle collisions. Q. What proportion of the electricity used in the United States is generated and sold by privately-owned companies? —C. B A. About 94 per cent. The remaining 6 per cent is developed and sold under municipal government ownership and operation. Q. To what tribe did Indian Chief Tecumseh belong?—P. L. H. A. He was a Shawnee. Q. What are the seven deadly sins?— E. K A. i’hey are pride, avarice, lust, anger, envy, gluttony and sloth. These are often personified in medieval literature. Q. Why has the American Mercury changed its format?—A. P. A. The reasons given are that the smaller size is more convenient for read= ers and can be sold at a lower price. A Rhyme at Twilight B 4 Gertrude Brooke Hamilton Divided. Know this: Nor ever doubt it as the truth— * I love you. Though b}r words only can I give the proof, I love you. For circumstance and time have distance thrown Between your heart and mine. Each is alone. Bweet wx:rds take wing and protestations fail, Soft whisperings are no longer of avail, Yet know, although there is so much to rue, Know it and hold to it the long hours thru— mwngnmwunnmhweavmm I you. For your devotion and your constancy I love you.